Song ID

For ever? For ever ever? For ever ever?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYxAiK6VnXw

2:38

heard a tale the other day
strangest one i ever knew
up in the hills and through the trees
his memory still haunting me

???? helping out a friend here

Google is your friend too, you know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pHzemDZ588

god dammit I have that record! and my friend swore he tried Google, just bein' lazy xp

also THANK YOU Mr. How's Life

I woke up with the beginning of a piece of music I can't quite place in my head.
it's a two chord piano sequence, similar to the piano in James Blake's 'Limit To Your Love' but it's not that song. I'm almost certain it's the lead track from an album from an established act that came out within the last ten years. at first I thought it might Ambulance by Blur because the chord sequence is similar, but there's no piano in that song.
I know that's vague. but can anyone help?

cant make out the vocals enough to start searching possible titles on this little fellow on the green

http://www100.zippyshare.com/v/tu7JXAbi/file.html

Female singer, new wave song recorded from Canadian radio in the early 80s sometime and mislabelled apparently. Any ideas?

https://soundcloud.com/treatment-x/da-da-band-everything-is-right

late 80s early 90s mid-tempo radio synthpop. mumbly, breathy male lyrics. singing something like "alllll myyyy liiiife" or "allll myyy miiiind" or possibly both?

Or maybe it's "my whole life"?

Bouncy little lead synth line.

psychedelic furs - love my way (?)

You nailed it! I didn't even get the words remotely right.

yesterday i was listening to a spotify playlist, and after the playlist ended it kept going on into the mystery bonus radio thing that takes the last few songs in the playlist and tries to find other songs in the same vein.

so a song came on that i wasn't familiar with. i didn't catch the artist but the title was something close to "indian reservation", and the lyrics were mostly about going back to missouri. it sounded like it was from the late 60s or early 70s, kind of in the r&b/soul style, mid-tempo, chill.

anyone know it? i tried to look back in my spotify listening history on my phone but it only shows the songs from the playlist i was listening to, not the extended bonus radio tracks that played afterward.

Early 80s track. Band and title are wrong. Possibly Canadian. Anyone recognise?

https://soundcloud.com/treatment-x/da-da-band-everything-is-right

heard while shopping: a late '70s/early '80s (?) funk song with a smooth male vocalist and a chorus that goes something like this:

____________ let you go
got to get below

the first line might end with "let this go", and the second line might be "[something something] get low" (proto Lil Jon?), but the exact wording eludes me, and google isn't helping so far. any ideas?

fyi it was Lenny Kravitz's 2018 single Low. hurts 2 get kravitzed so hard :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EldVJhGZpDc

https://vocaroo.com/d2XWzhyWDDB

beautiful obscure French chanson.

amazing song

have been trying word combinations, but nobody seems to have added the lyrics somewhere, anywhere, online. :o

where did you first hear it ?

asking for a friend! i said i'd put the link up on ILX the all-knowing forum :P

Was in the grocery and heard a (classic rock?) song following The Eagles "Already Gone". I've definitely heard it before but it was being played at a volume that made it hard for me to discern it completely. Distinctions:

Slow-tempo, kinda "soft shoe" country rock feel
Vocals were kinda talky, soft spoken
May have had a female backing vocalist enunciating at times (with harmony?)
The chorus had a slide guitar hook that went like (in key of C): C (hold) C-B-C-G-E (hold) and would repeat after some soft song words

Now the reason I mentioned "Already Gone" is that this song shares a kinship with that song, maybe it's slower/softer cousin if that makes sense.

whoops the notes of the slide guitar chorus hook should be: C (hold) C-B-C-E-G (hold)

Help! What song is in the first 45 seconds of this video?

https://www.facebook.com/kait.midgett/videos/10224531063842667/

heard while pooping at a Park & Ride in late 2021: an early-to-mid-'70s singer-songwriter/folk-pop song. male vocals with maybe a bit of a country twang; no prominent vocal harmonies iirc. the chorus is something along the lines of 'I don't have to [verb], she [verbs]', but I'm hazy on what exactly she does on his behalf. 'I don't need to worry, she worries for me' would kinda make sense, but it's not that

I sat inside the same Park & Ride a few months ago and heard Boz Scaggs, Paul Simon, and Lobo's Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend, which is along the same lines stylistically. it was some oldies station on Sirius

any ideas?

"Up on Cripple Creek," by The Band?

that's not it, but thanks for trying

it's a lot mellower and less rockin' than that Band song, though not necessarily acoustic. think Gordon Lightfoot or Don McLean

a hard rock song whose chorus goes

"it's a chain reaction / everybody talkin / it's a chain reaction"

probably... 1990 or so? i want to say it's somebody like warrant, or white trash, or cinderella but i cannot find it at all. i managed to dig up a video by long-forgotten hard rockers "harlow" who have a song called chain reaction but nope

a salsa-inspired latin crossover hit from the '90s. sounds a lot like marc anthony's "i need to know". big brassy horn section with a very infectious hook that gets repeated throughout the song.

pretty sure it's spanish vocals.

was a huge hit and you still here it being played.

hear it*

elvis crespo - "suavemente"?

no, it's more midtempo, closer in tempo and feel to "i need to know"

Not “Smooth,” by Santana (ft. Rob Thomas)?

(I know that’s not Spanish vox…)

nope! thanks though

The Blackout Allstars - "I Like It (Like That)"?

nope.

starting to drive me crazy. i might have to record a little clip of the melody.

sorry to interrupt one request with another, but this has been bugging me for years - indie pop / 60's motown with what i can only describe as the "columbian necktie" drumbeat, female vox - shangri-las / shop assistants / aislers set type of thing - verse chorus verse chorus then repeats "only boy" or "lonely boy" till the end
any ideas?

budo j, is this too obvious?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mPV9f6tGWI

xp massaman this is a long shot as “Johnny” doesn’t sound much like “lonely” or “only,” but some of the other elements are there — perhaps “Johnny Boy Theme” by Johnny Boy?

xp i've gone through MA's entire catalogue at this point and i'm pretty sure he didn't do the song i'm thinking of.

And a number of xp Tracer Hand — Drivin N Cryin “Chain Reaction”?

fucking hell that's it!!!!

GAUHHH!!!

thank you

cmon how, like, spin doctors is that song

early rejecter - i think you might have it! - thank you! - funny how my memory had morphed it into something different, tho, so now i have to overcome the urge to continue looking for the imaginary song that never existed >doh!<

I’ve definitely had that experience. Anyway if you’re not familiar with them be sure to check out “You Are the Generation that Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve.” That one’s a classic.

i realized my brain was hearing a spanish-language salsa cover of outkast's "the way you move"

whether that actually exists or was created by my brain is a different question